What were cohongs?
A) a group of Chinese commercial firms with the exclusive right to trade with Western merchants
B) the derogatory term used by the Chinese to describe barbarian Westerners
C) Chinese opium addicts
D) the Chinese rebels who attempted to expel foreigners in 1900
E) the six Chinese ports opened to foreign traders after the first Opium War
Answer: A
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